2nd YSI FLE Summer Academy – Law and Money: From Past to Future

University of Manchester Law School Manchester, England, United Kingdom

A particular set of ideas about law, money, and society dominated the last half century of global governance - in a nutshell, that the world was far too complex for coordinated democratic decision-making and should best be left to ‘the market’. This carried far reaching theoretical assumptions and policy implications: for instance, money is apolitical, …

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Week 8: MODULE 5: Economic Networks

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Readings: Walter W. Powell, "Neither Market nor Hierarchy: Network Forms of Organization" (1989) Lyon, F. Trust, Networks and Norms: The Creation of Social Capital in Agricultural Economies in Ghana. World Development 28, 663–681 (2000). Discussion questions: In developing parts of the world, what does "the market" actually look like? Is it different for different goods? …

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YSI @ 2nd International Workshop on Demand-led Growth

Institute of Economics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Second International Workshop on Demand-led Growth: Structural Change and Income Distribution The Research Group in Political Economy at the Institute of Economics of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro follows the Sraffian project proposed by Garegnani to make the Keynesian-Kaleckian principle of effective demand compatible with the classical surplus approach. For our group, growth …

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Week 9: MODULE 5: Economic Networks

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Readings: Penny Mealy, J. Doyne Farmer and Alexander Teytelboym "Interpreting Economic Complexity" Science Advances (2019) Discussion questions: Why do we see more "complexity" as defined in the article in richer countries? From a network perspective, what does economic growth mean? Paper presentations by young scholars of the Complexity Economics Working group

YSI @ ECLAC Alumni Workshop 2019

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The YSI/ECLAC Workshop traditionally marks the beginning of the ECLAC Summer School on the Latin American Economies. The call for papers for the YSI @ ECLAC Workshop 2019 invites contributions (theoretical or empirical) on any subject relevant for the discussion of economic development in the region. Possible topics include problems of debt and development, finances …

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LPFMI Q&A

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Dear all, We are excited to announce the YSI Liquidity Project organized by the YSI Financial Stability and Finance, Law and Economics Working Groups. The project brings liquidity questions across the entire financial sector into focus with a first focus on financial market infrastructure (FMI). In the near future, we will be focusing on issues …

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LPFMI Q&A

Virtual Project Virtual Project

Dear all, We are excited to announce the YSI Liquidity Project organized by the YSI Financial Stability and Finance, Law and Economics Working Groups. The project brings liquidity questions across the entire financial sector into focus with a first focus on financial market infrastructure (FMI). In the near future, we will be focusing on issues …

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Brazil’s State & Market: Bolsonaro’s election within Brazilian slump

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The presentation aims to go through the elements of the political economy that explain the Brazilian crisis and the rise of alt-right Bolsonaro. We will analyze the current crisis of Brazilian capitalism in three interdependent dimensions: the accumulation, the political scene and the relationship between the power block and the State.We will show how the …

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YSI Asia Convening

VNU University of Economics and Business Hanoi, Vietnam

Hundreds of young scholars from all over Asia are coming together in Hanoi to discuss new economic thinking, present their research, and work with over 30 senior scholars. Join us there and become a part of YSI's global community! Keynote speakers *Jayati Ghosh *is a development economist and Professor of Economics at the Centre for …

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